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The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society
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Varieties of Participation in Complex Governance
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop a framework for understanding the range of institutional possibilities for public participation, including who participates, how participants communicate with one another and make decisions together, and how discussions are linked with policy or public action.
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Social Network Sites as Networked Publics: Affordances, Dynamics, and Implications
TL;DR: Ito et al. as discussed by the authors argue that publics can be reactors, re-makers and re-distributors, engaging in shared culture and knowledge through discourse and social exchange as well as through acts of media reception.
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A New Era of Minimal Effects? The Changing Foundations of Political Communication
W. Lance Bennett,Shanto Iyengar +1 more
TL;DR: For instance, this article pointed out that people have become increasingly detached from overarching institutions such as public schools, political parties, and civic groups, which at one time provided a shared context for receiving and interpreting messages.
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The virtual sphere: The internet as a public sphere
TL;DR: The internet and its surrounding technologies hold the promise of reviving the public sphere; however, several aspects of these new technologies simultaneously curtail and augment that potential as discussed by the authors, and it is possible that internet-based technologies will adapt themselves to the current political culture, rather than create a new one.
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Democracy online: civility, politeness, and the democratic potential of online political discussion groups:
TL;DR: The study results revealed that most messages posted on political newsgroups were civil, and suggested that because the absence of face-to-face communication fostered more heated discussion, cyberspace might actually promote Lyotard's vision of democratic emancipation through disagreement and anarchy.
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The Emergence of the Legality Tradition in Russia, 1800-1918
TL;DR: Borisova as discussed by the authors describes and analyzes the competing approaches to codification in Russia during the first decades of the nineteenth century following Napoleon and his Code Civil and its evaluation in the late nineteenth century.
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Funding classical music: A comparison of Norwegian public policy and practitioner perspectives
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined ways in which public funding of the classical music sector is legitimised by the Norwegian public sector and by classical music practitioners working in Norway, and found that the funding is underpinned by three forms of rationales: equality, collective well-being and the intrinsic value of art.
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Constructing the Visual Online Political Self: An Analysis of Instagram Use by the Scottish Electorate
TL;DR: It is concluded that users of the social media platform Instagram utilised Instagram as a platform to craft and present their "political selves", raising questions for future research around power and inequality on such platforms as well as their capability of providing a persistent forum for debate.
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City diplomacy and “glocal” governance: revitalizing cosmopolitan democracy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that state-to-state negotiations often fall into "gridlocks"; international policy-making also suffers from "democratic deficits" while we live in a twenty-first-century world of interdependence.
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Academic attitudes to new media in UK higher education: an interdisciplinary study
TL;DR: In this paper, the attitudes of UK academics toward new media as both cultural artefacts and tools, assessing the relationship of those attitudes to traditionally distinct disciplinary structures, are examined, and a homogenisation of attitudes across not only disciplines, but genders, age groups, and experience levels.